The Casey Anthony Trial

Every year, many people go on trial and have court cases for a crime of murder, but the Casey Anthony case was deemed “trial of the century”. According to “Casey Anthony,” June 15, 2008 was when two-year old Caylee Anthony was last seen alive. Casey Anthony, Caylee’s mom, claims that she dropped her daughter off at the babysitter’s home. When going to pick her up, neither the babysitter nor Caylee were anywhere to be found. A month later, on July 15, 2008, Cindy Anthony, Casey’s mother, called 911 and reported that Casey had told the family that she had not seen her daughter for 31 days. On July 16, mother of Caylee Anthony, Casey Anthony was arrested and charged for child neglect. On October 14, 2008 Casey Anthony was charged with first-degree
One story Casey told investigators that the day Caylee went missing, she had left her with the nanny, Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez, who watched Caylee in her apartment. Casey also told investigators that her daughter had accidently drowned in her grandparents’ pool while her dad was the one to cover up the evidence. While searching deeper into the cases, the physical evidence seemed to prove that Casey was the primary suspect to this Caylee’s
Jennifer Ford, known as the No. 3 juror on the case, states “I did not say she was innocent,” “I just said there was not enough evidence..” (Mary Burke 1). Not all evidence was allowed to be told to all the jury at which investigators found necessary. Michele Tauber states that an alternate juror, Russell Huekler told HLN “The family appeared to be very dysfunctional and instead of admitting… there was an accident, they chose to hide it for whatever reason.” He also says “You have to remember there were a number of law enforcement officers that responded on July 15 and none of them smelled the odor,” Huekler told HLN. “It was hard for me to accept that there had been a body in the car.” (Page 1). Although there was information leading to Casey, the jury of 11 women and 5 men didn’t believe there was enough evidence to support Casey Anthony being convicted of murder. There was enough reasonable doubt to acquit her, at which the world will never know how or why, two year old Caylee Anthony had her life cut too